On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Adolfo Jayme Barrientos <f...@libreoffice.org> wrote: > 2014-11-29 23:38 GMT-06:00 Yury Tarasievich said: >> Said recommendations, while formaly correct, are subverted by the fact that >> there are no commonly accessible methods to keyboard-input all those "fancy" >> glyphs. > > Wrong. > > OS X and Linux distros include punctuation (which is not “fancy” at > all) out-of-the-box in most keyboard layouts—the user does not have to > do anything weird to get these working. The only OS missing the fun in > Windows, but bah. > >> Program UI isn't a typography showcase. > > Of course it is! We’re building an office suite, remember? An office > suite which has to do with typography a great lot. And even if it > didn’t, it’s supposed to demostrate a level of polish and leave a > better, lasting impression on users. They do care about these things, > I certainly do as well. Even amateurish OS X applications implement > typographic quotation marks. Recent versions of GNOME core > applications also do. Windows Store apps are also in the boat. It was > only a matter of time.
Fair enough, but please invent a process that makes these cosmetical changes transparent for translators. People don't want to retranslate or review 4000 strings just because you changed apostrophes in en-US. Not to mention that many languages are unmaintaned in Pootle, Thanks, Andras -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: l10n+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
